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University cf Oregai Library Eugene, Oregon OOiiP Roseburg Takes Crown Rosebures Legion Junior! snog irate baseball crown by tipping Ti gard. Tht Lockwood Moton team now facet the Western Regionals. Festival Pictures Photos covering events of Myrtle Creek's Fall Festival held Friday and, Saturday, will be found on Fag 5 today. Established 1873 16 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1962 191-62 10a Per Copy Cosmonaut logs First Hion Miles ? QUEEN RAMONA and her court of lovely princesses reigned during the weekend's Myrtle Creek Fall Festival, They are shown on the queen's float which highlighted the Sat urday morning parade. The queen and other candidates in the contest sold about 28,000 tickets. (News-Review photo). Myrtle Creek Parade Winners Announced Rice's Music of Myrtle Creek took first honors in the commer cial division in Myrtle Creek's big parade Saturday. Second place was won by Dave's 76 Station and third by Del's Building Supply, both of Myrtle Creek. AU winners received gold cup trophies which revolve from year to year in con nection with the annual Fall Festi val, according to Lorraine Biren baum, correspondent. Feline Fanciers of Oregon won $75 for their first-prize-winning float in the non-commercial divi sion. Wa ki ya Camp Fire Girls of Myrtle Creek took the second place prize of $50 for their float, and the Myrtle Creek Stockmen's float won the third prize of $25. Job's Daughters Bethel 39 of Rid dle walked off with the $45 first prize in the marching unit divi sion. The Broomtail Operators 4-H group came in second, winning $20. Karl Henbest's Indian Dancers of Roseburg placed third, winning $10. Honorable mention, with prizes of $2 (piece, was given to both the Boy Scouts end Cub Scouts of Myr tle Creek, the Myrtle Creek Ju venile Grange, and the Bathing Beauties of 1970, group of pre teeners. In the individual entry group, the Pioneer Days group won the first Heart Attack Fatal To Rancher At Fire William Burt, 50, of Rt. 4, Box 485, Happy Valley Rd., died Sun day while fighting a small grass fire on his ranch. He suffered a heart attack. The Roseburg Rural Fire Depart ment said the fire started from an electric fence on his ranch shorting out in some dry grass. It burned about a 50-foot square before it was put out. Firemen said Burt's wife, Florence, and their four chil dren had the fire controlled when the firemen arrived. Burt suffered the fatal attack while trying to hold the fire be fore firemen arrived. Walt's ambu lance took "him to a Roseburg hos pital where he was pronounced dead. Burt was a lifelong resident of Roseburg being born here Feb. 10, 1912. He was educated in Rose burg and in 1942 was married here. During World War II he served in the Air Force. He was a mem ber of the Roseburg American Le gion Post. He was also a member of the Evergreen Grange and was its past master. Since 1946 he has been employed as plant superintendent for Rose burg Sand and Gravel Co. Surviving besides his wife are two daughters, Judy and Linda, and two sons, Terry and Tommy, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Burt, Roseburg; a broth er, Mcrritt Burt, Roseburg; and a sister, Mrs. Agnes Wilcox, Oak land. Also surviving are two nieces and two nephews. Funeral services are pending at Wilson's Chapel of the Roses, Roseburg. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday, lirtlt warmer Tuesday. Highest temp, last 24 hours 83 Lowest tamp, last 24 hours 59 Highest temp, any Aug. (60) 103 Lowest temp, any Aug. (54) 41 Precip. last 24 hours .0 Prtcip. from Aug. 1 .53 Preelp. from Sept. 1 33.02 Excess'from Sept. 1 - 2.76 Sunset tonight, 7:20 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:17 a.m. Loggers Fire WeaHwr Temperatures today and Tues day about 80, with lowest humidi ties both days above 40 per cent. Northwest winds today 512 m.p.h. becoming southwesterly Tuesday afternoon. Outlook Wednesday is mostly cloudy with scattered showers. prize of $5. Second place with a $3 prize was taken by Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and third with a $2 prize by the "Car 54" entry. In the drawing held in connec tion with the ticket sale, the covet ed camping trailer went to a win ner from Glide, Lincoln Kendy. Mickey Manley of Oakland won the movie camera, and Earl Kennedy of Dillard won the transistor ra dio, Bruce Howard of Myrtle Creek won the baby beef offered. Another transistor radio, furnished by the Myrtle Creek Grange, was won by Steve Yarbrough of Myrtle Creek. A doll with wardrobe, fur nished by the Grange Home Eco nomics Club, was won by Shirley Adams of Myrtle creek. Wardrobe prizes won by Festi val Queen Ramona Evers and her princesses will be announced soon and are expected to exceed similar prizes given in past years. JFK's Tax Cut Decision Due BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (UPI) President Kennedy ends a sailing weekend today and flies back to Washington to complete the economic report he will de liver to the nation at 7 p.m. EDT tonight. His address in which he will disclose his decision on whether a tax cut is needed now to bol ster the economy was in produc- tion over the weekend. But the final version will be drafted to day' after further discussions be' tween Kennedy and some of his top advisers. Kennedy's schedule back at the White House was kept relatively clear today to give him as much free time as possible to work on the speech. The President came to Maine late Friday and spent a leisure ly weekend at the Johns Island home of former heavyweight box ing champion Gene Tunney. Sat urday was devoted largely to a long sailing cruise aboard the Coast Guard yawl Manitou with a group of friends who stayed with him at the Tunney estate. Sunday after church the Chief Executive went cruising again but remained at sea only two nours and 20 minutes. Other news developments at the Boothbay Harbor White House headquarters over tne weekenn in eluded the selection of Charles E. (Chhj) Bohlen. the State Depart ment's ranking expert on Russia for nomination as the new am bassador to France and Francis H. Russell as the new ambassa dor to Tunisia. Six Hurt As Crane Topples On Train NEW YORK (UPI) A highway construction crane toppled from an overpass onto Long Island Railroad tracks today, badly dam aging the first of a five-car train and injuring six passengers, five of them critically, police report ed. The injured were taken to St. j John's Hospital by police and .hospital disaster units that were 'called to the scene in the Wood iside section of Queens. All power was cut off on a major portion of the Long Island's Queens Line at the order of fire officials, but there was no fire. Police said the crane was be ing used in construction of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway when it toppled from the over pass onto the railroad right of way. The train was en route from the Jamaica Station in Queens to Pennsylvania Station in Manhat tan. . I m. iiiiiirTiiafci fMinmii'fiirrffliiiiaiwaiii'wniiiiwwTiTi'ji Springfield Man Lost As Skiff Hits River Jetty An elderly man apparently drowned, but his companion was rescued after their small skiff crashed on the rocks of the Ump qua River north jetty Sunday. Lost was O. T. Sage, about 65. of Springfield. He was not wearing a me jacKet. His boating companion, Mrs. Mary Roberts, about 55, Eugene, was saved by the Coast Guard. She was taken to Keizer Hospital in North Bend for treatment for severe shock. Her condition today was "good." The Coast Guard reported Mrs. Roberts was wearing a life jacket and stayed with the 14-foot craft as It smashed against the jetty. The Coast Guard lookout said that a few minutes after noon he noticed the tiny skiff was in trou ble, apparently from engine fail ure. The troubles were compound ed by winds reaching velocities of 25 to 35 miles an hour. Jhen. the boat capsized. . The Coast Guard lifeboat reach ed the scene quickly and took Mrs. Roberts aboard, but Sage had van ished. Most of a swarm of small craft had earlier been herded back into the harbor because of developing squally weather. The Sage skiff was demolished. Lumber Tariff Meetings Open SEATTLE (UPI) Northwest lumbermen were to start a series of meetings in three cities today in an effort to win tariff and ship ping changes. A delegation was to meet here today and in Portland Tuesday with staff members of the u.s, Tariff Commission to present evi dence supporting proposed tariffs on Canadian lumber. Robert Dwyer, co-chairman of the Lumbermen's Economic Sur vival Committee, said the com mission was sending an econo mist, an accountant and a forest specialist to meet with the lum bermen. The lumber industry was to be represented in Portland by Mel Prawitz and Jim -Whitney of Georgia Pacific Corp. and the Coos Bay Lumber Co. Other lum bermen were invited. Steps toward trimming lumber imnorts from Canada were part of President Kennedy's lumber statement a few weeks ago. Dwyer said another lumber del egation was to meet in Washing ton, D.C., Tuesday to seek back ine for shinning changes. Northwest lumbermen want amendments to the Jones Act to permit them to send lumber to the East Coast on less expensive foreign ships. Dwver said senators and con gressmen from the south have expressed fear this would flood their markets wun western mm ber. Stolen Car Recovered, Another Still Missing One stolen car was reported re covered and another reported miss ing in Roseburg over the weekend. Isaac Winship, Dillard, reported to city police the theft of the car of his wife, Leona kinship, from in front of the Umpqua Gun Store, in the 900 block on SE Stephens St., about 2:15 p.m. Sunday. It was a 1949 blue Dodge four-door sedan. City police recovered at 1 a.m. Sunday a 1954 model car earlier re ported stolen out of Portland some time Aug. 5. It was found parked on the Food Mart parking lot at 930 SE Stephens in the same gen eral vicinity where the other caP was stolen. Youth, Lady Die In Two Road Mishaps Two persons died in separate Douglas County highway mishaps over the weekend. Four other per sons were injured, one critically. Killed were George Raymond Ev- anoff, 15, of Buckhorn Rd., and Rena Meta Bellum, 67, of River Falls, Wis. The fatalities raised Douglas County's highway death toll to 16 for the year. Evannff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Evanoff of Roseburg, and Gary Lee Charon, 16, of Sutherlin, were struck by a vehicle on a county road. Roseburg state po lice said the accident occurred on the Buckhorn Rd. near the Dixon- ville Store about 1:50 a.m. Sunday. According to investigating offi cers, the two youths were lying down asleep on the road when struck by a 1950 station wagon driven by Richard Kent Moore, 23, of 844 SE Flint St., Roseburg. Moore told officers he was unable to stop before running over the two boys. Police are investigating reasons for the boys being in the road. The victims were rushed to Doug las Community Hospital by Billy Mohr's ambulance service. Evan off was dead on arrival. Charon was hospitalized with a broken seapida, and his condition today was listed "good." State police said the accident is still under investigation. There were three passengers in the Moore vehicle which was traveling west. They were Dennis Lee Ferguson, William Peter Holden and stepnen Loris Bowman, all of Roseburg. The Wisconson woman was killed in a collision involving three cars at 11:30 a.m. Sunday about live miles north of Oakland on Inter state Highway 5. State police said the woman was a passenger in a 1956 sedan operated by her Drotn er, Peter Nygard Bellum, of Oak land, Calif. Condition Critical Bellum's condition was reported "critical'-' at Dougla -Community Hospital. Investigating police said Bellum tifiie nnnnronilv travelinff north in the wrong lane of traffic. A vehicle driven by James itoDert wiemera, IK nt Fall Pmplt traveling SOUth. swerved across tne soutiiDouno mim i in nvniri collision with the oncoming car, according to offi cers. But Bellum's vehicle struck the nrnor nf the Wiemers ve- hinin onH ,nnHnupd on to be struck by a third vehicle, a 1961 sedan, driven by William uoie liienuis, , inm'e oar 'was struck in the side aF Ho moh N I I HIlCGri HH1U J3U1- by the Nichols car. The Wisconsin woman was Rul ed instantly on being thrown from the car, it was reported. Pair Hospitalised lUIMinln nnri his linn. William Colo Nichols, Jr., 12, were nospitauzea with minor Injuries. Their condi inn wns rpnnrted satisfactory to day and it was expectea iney uugui be released sometime uunng we day. Wiemers and tour passengers with him, Betty Arlene Wiemers, 36, Susan Carol, 14, Connie Marie, 13. and James Rodney, 9. were not injured. Dnrl.r it thn fofa V lnilirPn WCHT1 an ii tnlron in Sutherlin-Oakland Mnrtnarv whiph is h&ndlim! local arrangements. The victim was born Oct. Z5, 14, at mver runs, Wis., and taught school in the Rlv- or ITnlln fitPB Thn hfldV Will DO sent to Segerstrom Funeral home in River alls tor tunerai services and burial. Announcement of tu nm-ai arrnntfumpnljt is nendimz ar rival of family members from Fresno, Cant., ana utan. Long Ordeal Ends For Mother, Son DETROfT, Ore. (UPI) A long 21 hours in the rugged, chill Cas cades ended Sunday afternoon for a Milwaukie school teacher and her small son. Mrs. Gordon Clapp and Leon ard, 3, were sighted by a search helicopter as they waved from a small field in Brietenbush Canyon in the mountains northeast of ha lcm. The rescue ended a search by more than 70 Scouts and moun tain rescue teams who had fanned out along the Skyline Trail area. The helicopter lifted Mrs. Clapp and her son with ropes and car ried them to a forest ranger sta tion. Both were in good shape. Mrs. Clapp said she was confi dent they would be found. Her husband, who was hiking with them .just before they became lost, added, "I am damned thank ful to have them back." Mrs. Clapp and Leonard had roamed five miles during the night from the spot where they became separated from their party during a wilderness outing rnday. Violence Marks Anniversary Of Berlin BERLIN (UPI) - Communist and West Berlin police fought a battle with tear gas grenades, smoke bombs and water cannon today on the first anniversary of the Communist - built "Wall of Shame" that divides the city. West Berliners screamed noisy defiance and insults at the Reds. The trouble started when West Berliners jammed up against the wall to mark its construction with an official three minutes of silence and an unofficial half hour of noise, threats and insults hurled across the border at the Reds. Drivers massed their cars for blocks around the foreigners' crossing place at Checkpoint Charlie and the nearby Wilhelm strasse to blow their horns, wave handkerchiefs at East Berliners and shout abuse at Red police. Factory sirens wailed during the demonstration, drowning out Communist loudspeaker trucks on the other side of the wall. The Red police hurled tear gas grenades at the West Berlin dem onstrators, West Berlin police re taliated by throwing smoke bombs across the wall at the Reds. list Water 1 Cannons The Communists also turned two water cannons on the crowd of about 500 West Berliners who had gathered at the wall at the sightseeing corner of Zimmer and Wilhelmstrasse near the East German goverment head quarters. East Berlin itself was quiet and calm, without crowds or demon strations, Western visitors re ported. The West Berliners shouted in sults at tne communists across the wall, yelling such things as "Down with Ulbricht" and "Down with the wall" a reference to the fact that East German Commu nist dobs Walter Ulbricht ordered the wall built,.. ....,.; Eight youths carried a cross with the inscription We Accuse. The communists first turned their water cannon on the cross in an effort to knock it down Parking Group Asks Amendment To City Charter A request from tho Roseburg Parking Association asking that a charter amendment be placed on the November ballot for public parking assessment proceedings win oe considered uy the Rose burg City Council tonight. the council will also hear a prog ress report on improvements to Gaddis Park and act on a recom mendation that $500 be budgeted for youth employment to improve park facilities. Also scheduled is a review of East Roseburg sanitary sewer as sessments preparatory to a public hearing on the assessments slated Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. in the uity council Chamber. This will be an adjourned meeting from Mon day night. Third reading will be given to ordinances proposing vacation of a portion of W. Azalea Dr., vacating a portion of sis pine St. and annex ing the northerly end of NW Lyn wood Terrace Dr. 0 $ ' ST ATI CHAMPS Area IV Legion Commissioner Lis Wimberly presents th 1962 pen nant to the four co-captains of the Lockwood Motors Legion nine. Accepting tht flag with happy smiles ore (I to r) Marv French, Gordon Avery, Glen Fortune and Tom Hobbs, The presentation followed Roseburg' 4-1 victory over Tigard Saturday. 'Wall Of Shame' But the youths stood firm. They held on to the cross although they were soaked and shaken by the streams of water. Then the communist police hurled tear gas grenades over the wall. ; The incident began about 30 min utes after thousands of West Ber liners gathered along the wall at various places to stage their noisy demonstrations and unnerve the jit tery Communist guards. Exchange Tear Gas Gr;,id West Berlin police said that in the Wilhelmstrasse incident both Eastern and Western police ex changed about 50 tear gas gre nades in a 20-mlnute battle. The East Germans had moved up more reinforcements to the Rusk Presses Soviets For Talks On Reducing Tension In Berlin WASHINGTON (UPI) Secre- tary of Slate Dean Rusk today1 pressed Russia for four power talks on reducing tensions be tween East and West Berlin. This was the only concrete de velopments officials would discuss after Rusk and soviet Ambassa dor Anatoly F. Dobrynln met for 23-minutes at the State Depart ment. The State Department said the talk "produced no significant change" in the over-all Berlin situation. The United Slates and other Local Dairies Up Milk Prices Two Roseburg area dairies.. to day reported, increases in milk prices effective today, A , third dairy may follow suit later. , Umpqua Dairy Products Co. an nounced that prices on most fluid milk products will be increased one cent per quart at both the wholesale and retail levels. There was no change on cheeses, ice cream or frozen dessert prices.. O. J. Feldkamp. president, stat ed that milk prices in the Rose burg area have not been increased for several years now, with costs rising on both labor and materials. Eugene area milk prices raised a half cent per quart last year with no change made in the Doug las County area. However, he said, with the recent wage negotiations, substantial labor cost raises makes price increases necessary. Eugene boosted prices an addi tional half cent per quart two weeks ago, when their Teamster Union contract was completed, and several Portland dairies an nounced a one-cent raise during the past two weeks, Feldkamp re minded. Meadow-Brook Dairy announced it is going along with the one-cent rise. A definite answer was not avail able from Melrose Dairy, but a tentative report indicated any price rise probably would not come before the first of September. Oth er Farms had no change to report today. wall during the night and the sound of tracked vehicles was heard In the West. West Berlin police said the Western Allies increased their pa trols along the wall and the Americans seemed to be sending more official automobiles into East Berlin. Soviet army sedans in the West were greeted with threaten ing waves of fists, angry shouts and derisive whistles from West Berliners. American military po lice along the West Berlin bor der had to protect the Russian sedans from angry throngs as they returned to East Berlin. The Russians indicated they were 'afraid the West Berliners would attack them. Western powers proposed June 25 that representatives of the United States, Britain, France and Russia meet to discuss ways of reducing the number of incidents of vio lence which have occurred at the Berlin wall and ways to ease the barriers to commerce and move ment of people between the two sectors. Russia formally rejected the proposal July 14. Last Saturday, the Slate Department urged the Kremlin to "reconsider." Acting State Department press officer James Bishop said Rusk today "called the ambassador's attention to the proposal. , .noting that the Soviet Union had reject ed the proposal recently." Dobrvnin was noncommittal on Berlin after the 'meeting but was more than willing to talk to news men about Soviet space exploits-. Japanese Ends Pacific Trip SAN FRANCISCO '(UPI) - A weekend sailor from Japan sailed into San Francisco Bay Sunday and announced he had. Just-completed three-month solo' cruise across the Pacific in a 19-foot boat. '. Kenichi Horle, 23, said he quit his job in his father's auto parts shop In Osaka and took to the sea May 12. Weary but high spirited after his 5,200-mile nonstop voyage, Horie waited at anchor off San Francisco for four hours await ing clearance to come ashore. He said he ran into bad storms at five points during the crossing. On one occasion, he said, the sea tore away two portholes of his craft and he had to board them up to keep the boat afloat. He was equipped with 30 liters of water. 40 Kilograms of rice and 200 cans of other food when he left Osaka, he told the Coast Guard. He also had a stock of Japanese beer and sakl, Not once during the trip, be said, did he see land. Why this eple cruise? "I would like to learn democ racy, the frontier spirit and yacht ing,'' he told reporters. Flight Equals Two Return Moon Trips MOSCOW (UPI) One of Soviet cosmonauts orbiting the globe at almost 18.000 mils. hour tonight completed a journey of a million miles, a distance. equal to two round trips to the moon. There was no sign that either space ship was about to return to earth any time soon. iiaaio Moscow announced that aj, Adrian Nlkolavev. 32. hail completed 37 orbits in the space ship Vostok III by 9 a.m. PDT. The radio also announced that Lt Col. Pavel Popovich, 31, in the spaceship Vostok IV bad com leted 21 orbits by the same hour. The announcement said both cosmonauts were continuing to carry out their scientific and technical assignments in space, Including operating their space ships by manual control. Both cosmonauts reported they ate dinner with a good appetite tonight and that the; felt welL They said the equipment in both their ships was functioning norm ally. - Radio Moscow scheduled further live television transmissions from space today, Indicating that they may be up for at least another night. Earlier Intorceptions outside the Soviet Union of messages to the space ships had indicated an im mlnent landing of at least one of them. , Soviet leaders, from Premier Niklta Khrushchev down, kept the world guessing as to just how long Nikolayev and Popovich would be kept aloft in their twin rides through space. In a message to the two cos monauts after Nikolayev had rounded out two full days in orbit and ropovicn one lull day, Khrushchev told them by radio he wished them "a successful fulfill ment of the planned flight pro gram and a happy landing." Observers noted Khrushchev' eare in making no reference to what the "planned flight pro-., gram" was or when the landing would eome. . Japanese and Swedish stations and space observatories intercept ed Russian-language messages in dicating one of the spaceships was preparing to land. But as- the day wore on, Vostok III. launched Saturday morning. and Vostok IV, blasted up beside it Sunday morning, were flying almost in formation on ; what looked 'like a marathon expedi tion. i : , -, A Soviet astronautlcal 'expert' said tin two spaceships are pio neering the way for the establish ment of "space stations" which would act as departure points for future voyages farther out into the cosmos. The two spacemen slept sound ly for six hours as their snipe orbited the earth during the night.. . Popovich, the father of a -year-old daughter, and bachelor Nllo- layev exchanged messages as they hurtled through space using their code names. Nikolayev's code came is called "Falcon" and Popovlch's Is "Golden Eagle." Everything is au ngnt witn me," Nikolayev said, reeling fine. Slept well." Pooovich's reply crackled back through apace. "Hello Falcon, uoiaen Eagie calling. Ant in perfect mood. Slept well Feeling marvelous." Policeman Wounded In Shooting Fray PORTLAND (UPI1-A shooting Sunday night resulted In a police man Ming wounded ana north east Portland resident being takes into custody. Arthur N. Baty, 51, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with bail set at $10,000 in connec tion with the shooting spree. One of the bullets struck Patrolman Albert L, Wilhelm in the right shoulder. Police said the shots were ap parently fired from a bedroom window of the Baty home with a XI cauoer pistol. Officers said the bullet struck some bouses two blocks away. Police said TL expended shell were, found.. In the second floor bedroom "c -USb "B'aty noma, on the ground ind-pnyjjs J)(5f elow ;the svi'ndo.w! After, irflh Ks wounded !fpMtqJW lTc?hWbwere admit- ted ifflj W .minfe By Baty' 'vA resistance. Rfiifl said he wis' ncea eflIM to the scene about 11:30 Lp.m. PDT. Wilhelm said he went td a ack yard near the Baty home and was talking to a resi dent when lights started going on and off inside. He said a shot went over hi head. "I dropped to one knee and the second shot hit mt In the arm," he said, Wilhelm said he fell flat and there was silence for a few moments before the hoot ing wss resumed.
